Football Crazy 2010
By
Michael Casey
I
speak as a football naive, I've only been to two matches in my life. It
was Villa v Arsenal and Villa v Derby maybe 12 years ago. (1998?)
But
as I said to Barry at the time the crowd was alive, it was like a huge
cat moving and swaying reacting to the play on the pitch. The 1st match I
was above the goal very high up. The 2nd match I was with Chris in the
middle just a few rows up. Live football cannot be beaten, I can't
really explain how it looks and how it feels. Its like you're in a huge
jelly that you put on the washing machine and then somebody switches the
washing machine on, so you wobble and wobble and you have no control.
That's
what a football crowd feels like. So much mass movement, so much
excitement, 50,000 people screaming and shouting, laughing and crying.
The grass so very very green.
This
is live football and when you have a master, and here you can take your
pick from any team, ManU, Villa, Chelsea and all the other teams. When
you have a master on the pitch it really is The Theatre Of Football. Act
One, Act Two and even a few dodgy acts trying to impress the Ref, all
of this is football. Live is always best. We've just moved up to a new
big lcd tv this year, the difference to everything and to football is
amazing. I imagine Sky's 3D is going to be totally fantastic too.
Footballers
are today's Gladiators, instead of Nero or any other Caesar raising his
thumb or condemning to death, now we have Sir Alex, and the other
managers raising their thumbs from their honoured position in the
stands. It's an old quote but a true one, "is it a matter of life or
death?" No its more important than that.
I have a lot to learn about football, but I do know one thing, the game is better when all of the players are on the pitch
in their natural area and not in self imposed "cages" whatever those
"cages" are. For footballers are like lions, they are born free, free
as the wind, chasing and ducking and diving, their prey is the football,
and the net is their home.
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